At Innovation, Intel confirmed that the company was going to focus on expanding artificial intelligence in the next generation of processors coded Meteor Lake.
The rapid acceleration of IE algorithms in the processor will allow for successful tasks such as visual recognition of images, forecasting, filtering background noises using Alexa or Cortana voice assistants. Many PC applications, such as Photoshop and Teams, are already actively using IE in their work, and hardware support from the processor will significantly accelerate the operation of such applications.
Rumours and leaks of various kinds related to the introduction of the IE block into Meteor Lake processors have been going on for over a year, but this time there is confirmation in the form of an update of drivers and detailed information on the future architecture of processors.
According to Intel Director-General Patrick Gelsinger, the realization of AI capabilities in the new processor can be compared to the introduction of a mathematical co-processor to processors to compute a floating point.
Gelsinger also provided examples of what Meteor Lake could achieve with the support of I.I. technology: ".
Intel also claims that Microsoft will support the new I.E. accelerator, although it is not reported in what capacity.
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Interestingly, this is not the first attempt to incorporate AI into the processor. Prior to this, Intel has tried to implement some of the II functions in the 10th generation Ice Lake processors, and Qualcomm has made similar attempts with its Snapdragon processors. However, neither has been distributed.